Viruses in my Chest

Viruses and worms
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I turned on my computer today, and found a very odd Anti-Virus scanner that i’d never downloaded. I use Avast, and Avast only =P It started running a scan without my permission. I quickly stopped it, and ran Avast. It wanted to scan with my computer off, and I let it. No surprise it found some Malware on my computer. It moved all 5 files into my chest. But now what? Do I delete them?

It hasn’t quarantined the problem - as is, my computer is freaking as I try and write this. Its opening Internet Explorer without my permission, and trying to access pornography, likely to get more viruses. I’ll be shutting my laptop off as soon as I send this, and i’ll simply check in on another computer.

For details, I am using Windows Vista, and i’m using Avast … 4.8?

I just need to know what to do, before I panic and run it the Geek Squad for help.

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you are probably infected with a rogue security program
if you can see a name on the program, we can find a removal guide for that program.

Malwarebytes is the one to use for removal www.malwarebytes.org

you can find removal guides here
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?s=31cf432434254c756bf3ec6b6566f865&showforum=39

3

For some reason, Avast is useless on this Rogue AV infection. Others on here, including
myself, also encountered what you are experiencing.

Run Malwarebytes or Spybot (which has Rogue detection) to catch and squash it.

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Do you think its safe to turn on my laptop, though? :frowning: The second I do, it opens I.E (internet explorer) over and over and over and over again, taking me to porno.com, where i’m probably exposing myself to even MORE viruses.

It having the ability to open these websites without my permission makes me nervous, lol. And its taken over my Site Manager - when I hit ctrl, alt delete? It pops up, and then the bug immediately squashes it and replaced it with the alert to run a scan for the fake scanner I haven’t downloaded. So I can’t even close all 50 of the I.E opening porn, because I can’t squash them fast enough. They just keep coming, and I can’t use my ‘manager’ to get rid of them.

But, I may give those two links a shot. And thanks for letting me know Avast can’t handle it. I wondered why it all blew up after Avast already put things into the chest. Malwarebytes it is.

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If you can, try logging in as a different USER. This may TEMPORARILY stop it. The doggone thing tends to insert itself into the Users file and activates when you logon. After a different User name,
you can run Malwarebytes and clear it outta there.

Also, read the stickies on top here. You may need to start up in safe mode to prevent
the Rogue from loading.

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Yes, run a scan with malwarebytes in safe mode with networking. A quick scan should suffice, after you update it.

Once it’s done, quarantine everything that it found and reboot into normal mode.

You should be clean at that point, but you can run another scan with malwarebytes and avast.

You can post the log here from malwarebytes to show us what it found, so that we can give you further instructions if needed.